Holston Gives Back

By Kathy ColeNovember 25, 2014

Feed the Children
1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Gene Faxon, safety manager, Holston Army Ammunition Plant delivers boxes intended for Hawkins County families. Families received three boxes each with food items, personal hygiene products and household cleaning supplies. At Holston AAP both govern... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
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2 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Representatives from Feed the Children, BAE Systems and Holston Army Ammunition Plant partnered to supply 1200 boxes of needed personal and household items to families in the Hawkins County School System. The school system delivered the boxes to 248... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL

KINGSPORT, Tenn. -- On November 21, Holston Army Ammunition Plant employees took time to give back to the local community. Holston partnered up with BAE Systems, Bristol Motor Speedway Children's Charity and Feed the Children to provide food, personal hygiene items and cleaning supplies to local families.

Hawkins County School System provided the names of individuals that had a need. The Hawkins County School system delivered items to 248 families in the county and city school systems. The remainder of the boxes were distributed out to families that had received vouchers for the event. A total of 1200 boxes were given out helping 400 local families.

Holston Army Ammunition Plant is a subordinate installation of the Joint Munitions Command. Holston AAP manufactures a wide range of secondary detonating explosives for the Department of Defense to include Research Department Explosive (RDX), High Melting Explosive (HMX), Insensitive Munitions Explosive (IMX-101 and IMX-104), and Triamino Trinitrobenzene (TATB) for use in warheads of all types of bombs, missiles, artillery shells, mortars, and fuzes.

JMC produces small-, medium- and large-caliber ammunition items for the Department of Defense. JMC is the logistics integrator for life-cycle management of ammunition and provides a global presence of technical support to U.S. combat units wherever they are stationed or deployed. JMC's logistics operation is unique to the DoD and is critical to the industrial base.

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